Steve Hutchison
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Film critic Steve Hutchison breaks down 29 monster and maniac archetypes from 2782 horror movies reviewed, rated, ranked, and classified.
Character spreads include the four top-ranking films in each category, their average star rating, the character's relative frequency in the genre, a list of the 10 simplest films, and a list of the 10 most complex ones.
This book offers a unique perspective on horror cinema whether you're looking for niched films...
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The following recommendation lists are based on 3000 horror movie reviews.
Not unlike sport publications, fantasy leagues, and role-playing games, the Almanac of Terror mixes and aggregates different statistics, facts, ratings, and opinions. Movies are ranked.
Classification methods include genres, subgenres, ambiances, and antagonists. Our different ratings are stars, story, creativity, action, quality, creepiness, and rewatchability.
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This book tells you what kind of comedies have rarely or never been made and warns you about saturated niches. Authors and screenwriters might want to avoid those. The lower the frequency meter, the more unique the concept.
These statistics are based on about 3000 horror and horror-adjacent movies I've reviewed and rated. 8 moods, 31 subgenres, and 63 antagonist types were randomly combined; one for each page for a total of 100 dark writing prompts....
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Plausible threats, as opposed to supernatural or surreal ones, encompass all menaces whose existence can be or has been proven by science.
Here's a ranked watchlist of 413 plausible horror movies reviewed by film critic Steve Hutchison.
How many have you seen?
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The following recommendation lists are based on 2000 horror movie reviews.Not unlike sport publications, fantasy leagues and role-playing games, the Almanac of Terror mixes and aggregates different statistics, facts, ratings and opinions. Movies are ranked.Classification methods include genres, subgenres, ambiances, and antagonists. Our different ratings are stars, story, creativity, action, quality, creepiness, and rewatchability.
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Steve Hutchison reviews 50 of the best alien, animal, cultist, demon, ghost, giant, lycanthrope, mutant, revenant, serial killer, vampire, wizard, and zombie movies. Each film is analyzed and discussed with a synopsis and a rating. The movies are ranked from best to worst. How many have you seen?
20) Horror-Adjacent
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Included in this book are 141 reviews of horror-adjacent films. Horror-adjacent films are mixes of comedy, drama, adventure, action, thriller, fantasy, and science fiction. They are dark enough to entertain horror movie fans, but can't exactly be called horror. How many have you seen?